Documentary

A documentary that utilizes hundreds of hours of audio that Marlon Brando recorded over the course of his life to tell the screen legend’s story.Read More »

Features rare archival material from the personal collections of Powell, Pressburger and Scorsese.Read More »

Det Danske Filminstitut wrote:
A razor, a hand, some white foam, a neck, a man talking, piano notes. A shaving is closely followed.
The title refers to a social democratic slogan.Read More »

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“This is one part of a proposed four-part film intended to document the Great Depression that was to be called AS I WALK. The other parts were never completed; consequently, FOOTNOTE TO FACT must stand alone. The film was to be post-synchronized, using sound in a stream-of-consciousness technique.” – Lewis JacobsRead More »

This is a rather remarkable documentary made by left-wing filmmaker Leo Hurwitz and his wife, Peggy Lawson. This copy was made available on the Eastman Museum website.

Here’s how Hurwitz’s official website describes the film:
The result of a commission from Film Polski, the Polish Film Production Agency, to make a film on the concentration camps, The Museum and the Fury was made with access to the Film Polski archive, out of which Hurwitz integrated wartime footage with images of the reconstruction of Poland and various works of art.Read More »

The film follows two mountain enthusiasts, battling through a glacier areain the Swiss mountains, the sublime beauty of the film is effectively staged.The attention will be paid equally to the contemplation of nature, such as theMountain sports on his then latest technical standard And it&’s also about a newform of natural experience thanks to the film and cinema technology that enablesa wide audience to look at then still little-known mountain tops for the first timeRead More »

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“Burckhardt’s travelogue of Port-au-Prince is a unique city symphony whose pace and rhythm favor tropical island life. He does not focus on voodoo but on Haiti’s daily life, neighbors, jokes, gossip, small dramas, Saturday night dances, and ghost stories,” evoking a place where time seems to stand still.” – Bruce PosnerRead More »

Between the Pyrenees and the Atlantic run powerful rivers called gaves. Corn fields make them thirsty, and dams block the flow of salmon. Human activity is disrupting the water cycle and the river’s biodiversity. Men and women look with curiosity and love at this fascinating world of beauty and disaster…Read More »

In The Life And Art Of Ernest Ludwig Kirchner, director Michael Trabitzsch boldly braids together the disparate strands of the Austrian Expressionist’s life and work–combining color with black and white photography, third person narration with first person confessions from Kirchner’s own notebooks, and an angular jazz score with the melodies of Kirchner’s day. “We claim as our own everyone who reproduces directly and without falsification whatever it is that drives him to create.” These words, carved into wood and hung in 1904 at the butcher shop group studio of Die Brucke (“the bridge”) by their author, Kirchner, were a credo that drove the artist and his work well beyond the life of the famed Dresden art collective. Read More »